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How a 2 person startup already uses 26 other tools / services
- chriscatoya 7y agoI'm curious about any sort of struggles you (or anyone else too!) run into with deep tool/service stacks like this. I'm currently working on an inbox as an app platform. We want to easily kick off cron jobs and other automations. Things like composing and automatically send a summary of today's commit, or firing off a build when an email arrives at a certain address, and rolling back when a new keyword appears. Any insight or feedback would be greatly appreciated! Some initial thoughts and questions: Are there integrations between these tools you'd wish to have? Do you see value in integrating commands across toolchains like this to avoid log-ins for standard actions? Have you looked in scripting automation across some of these tools?
- memn0nis 7y agoThe biggest issue is that we have all these tools but don't have the time to integrate any of them :). Most integrate with Zapier though
- chriscatoya 7y agoOf course :) Is it a question of perceived value for you vs limited time/friction or something else? Are there any things in your stack you wish were automatic if someone made that for you today?
- memn0nis 7y agoYeah, the biggest thing would be automating / integrating our outreach across channels. Something like boomerang across channels would be really nice
- wheresvic3 7y agoThis is a great list and I would be curious to know if you have done a cost-benefit analysis when compiling this list. E.g. something like Stripe for payments is probably much more cost effective than paying for some other services like Notion (which I assume you can get away by using google docs or whatever).
- memn0nis 7y agoThanks! We haven't, but we get a lot of this for free because we're so small. As soon as we grow we will have to prune the list for sure (but will replace these tools with others)